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diff --git a/results/scraper/launchpad-without-comments/1307225 b/results/scraper/launchpad-without-comments/1307225 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..dc22dc6a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/results/scraper/launchpad-without-comments/1307225 @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Running a virtual machine on a Haswell system produces machine check events + +I'm running a virtual Windows SBS 2003 installation on a Xeon E3 Haswell system running Gentoo Linux. First, I used Qemu 1.5.3 (the latest stable version on Gentoo). I got a lot of machine check events ("mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged") in dmesg that always looked like (using mcelog): + +Hardware event. This is not a software error. +MCE 7 +CPU 2 BANK 0 +TIME 1390267908 Tue Jan 21 02:31:48 2014 +MCG status: +MCi status: +Corrected error +Error enabled +MCA: Internal parity error +STATUS 90000040000f0005 MCGSTATUS 0 +MCGCAP c09 APICID 6 SOCKETID 0 +CPUID Vendor Intel Family 6 Model 60 + +I found this discussion on the vmware community: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/452344 + +It seems that this is (at least partly) caused by the Qemu machine. I switched to Qemu 1.7.0, the first version to use "pc-i440fx-1.7". With this version, the errors almost disappeared, but from time to time, I still get machine check events. Anyways, they so not seem to affect neither the vm, nor the host. + +I created the virtual machine on an older Core 2 Duo machine and ran it for several weeks without a single error message, so I think this is actually some problem with the Haswell architecture. The errors didn't show up until I copied the virtual machine to my new machine. \ No newline at end of file |